Johnny Horton The Early Years (7-LP Box)

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Johnny Horton: The Early Years (7-LP Box)

(Bear Family Records) 107 tracks 1951-1955 with 124 page LP-sized booklet

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Interpret: Johnny Horton
Album titlle: The Early Years (7-LP Box)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127152893
weight in Kg 2.7

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 1
01	Smokey Joe's Barbecue	Johnny Horton
02	Devilish Love Light	Johnny Horton
03	Candy Jones	Johnny Horton
04	Bawlin' Baby	Johnny Horton
05	It's A Long Rocky Road	Johnny Horton
06	Plaid And Calico	Johnny Horton
07	Done Rovin'	Johnny Horton
08	On The Banks Of The Beautiful Nile	Johnny Horton
09	Mean, Mean Son Of A Gun	Johnny Horton
10	Happy Millionaire	Johnny Horton
11	In My Home In Shelby County	Johnny Horton
12	Coal Smoke, Valve Oil And Steam	Johnny Horton
13	Talk Gobbler, Talk	Johnny Horton
14	Rhythm In My Baby's Walk	Johnny Horton
15	Birds 'n'Butterflies	Johnny Horton
16	Shadows On The Old Bayou	Johnny Horton
17	Go And Wash Those Dirty Feet	Johnny Horton
18	Words	Johnny Horton
19	Betty Lorraine	Johnny Horton
20	Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 2
01	Honky Tonk Jelly Roll Blues	Johnny Horton
02	Love And Tell	Johnny Horton
03	I Wish Heartaches Were Strangers	Johnny Horton
04	Confusion	Johnny Horton
05	Shadows On The Old Bayou	Johnny Horton
06	Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart	Johnny Horton
07	Talk Gobbler Talk	Johnny Horton
08	Two Eyed Sunday Pants	Johnny Horton
09	Down That River Road	Johnny Horton
10	Egg Money	Johnny Horton
11	Confusion (2)	Johnny Horton
12	First Train Headin' South	Johnny Horton
13	Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart (solo)	Johnny Horton
14	Smokey Joe's Barbecue	Johnny Horton
15	Betty Lorraine	Johnny Horton
16	Honky Tonk Jelly Roll Blues (with guitar)	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 3
01	Won't You Love Me, Love, Love Me	Johnny Horton
02	Why Did It Happen To Me	Johnny Horton
03	You, You, You	Johnny Horton
04	Broken Hearted Gypsy	Johnny Horton
05	All For The Love Of A Girl	Johnny Horton
06	My Heart Stopped, Trembled And Died	Johnny Horton
07	I'm A Fishin' Man	Johnny Horton
08	Where Do You Think You Would Stand	Johnny Horton
09	The Devil Made A Masterpiece	Johnny Horton
10	Because I'm A Jealous Man	Johnny Horton
11	I'm The One That Breaks In Two	Johnny Horton
12	The Train With The Rhumba Beat	Johnny Horton
13	'Cause You're The One For Me	Johnny Horton
14	None Of You But All Of Me	Johnny Horton
15	Dark Haired Beauty From Cuba	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 4
01	Tennessee Jive	Johnny Horton
02	S.S. Lureline	Johnny Horton
03	I Won't Get Dreamy Eyed	Johnny Horton
04	You You You	Johnny Horton
05	Two Red Lips And Warm Red Wine	Johnny Horton
06	All For The Love Of A Girl	Johnny Horton
07	I Won't Forget	Johnny Horton
08	First Train Headin' South	Johnny Horton
09	The Mansion You Stole	Johnny Horton
10	The Rest Of Your Life	Johnny Horton
11	The Devil Sent Me You (I Wished For An Angel	Johnny Horton
12	This Won't Be The First Time	Johnny Horton
13	Child's Side Of Live	Johnny Horton
14	Another Woman Wears My Wedding Ring	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 5
01	Move Down The Line	Johnny Horton
02	Hey, Sweet Sweet Thing	Johnny Horton
03	No True Love	Johnny Horton
04	Big Wheels Rollin'	Johnny Horton
05	Journey With No End	Johnny Horton
06	There'll Never Be Another Mary	Johnny Horton
07	The Devil Made A Masterpiece	Johnny Horton
08	Back To My Back Street	Johnny Horton
09	You Don't Move Me Baby, Anymore	Johnny Horton
10	Ha Ha And Moonface	Johnny Horton
11	Ridin' The Sunshine Special	Johnny Horton
12	Where Are You	Johnny Horton
13	The Train With The Rhumba Beat	Johnny Horton
14	Broken Hearted Gypsy	Johnny Horton
15	Meant So Little To You	Johnny Horton
16	You Cry In The Door Of Your Mansion	Johnny Horton
17	The Dot overdubbs	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 6
01	Plaid And Calico	Johnny Horton
02	Coal Smoke, Valve Oil And Steam	Johnny Horton
03	Devilish Lovelight	Johnny Horton
04	Done Rovin'	Johnny Horton
05	Mean, Mean Son Of A Gun	Johnny Horton
06	Talk, Gobbler Talk	Johnny Horton
07	Shadows On The Old Bayou	Johnny Horton
08	In My Home In Shelby County	Johnny Horton
09	Go And Wash Those Dirty Feet	Johnny Horton
10	Smokey Joe's Barbecue	Johnny Horton
11	It's A Long Rocky Road	Johnny Horton
12	Words	Johnny Horton

Horton, Johnny - The Early Years (7-LP Box) LP 7
01	Done Rovin'	Johnny Horton
02	It's A Long Rocky Road	Johnny Horton
03	Smokey Joe's Barbecue	Johnny Horton
04	Mean, Mean Son Of A Gun	Johnny Horton
05	Devilish Lovelight	Johnny Horton
06	Coal Smoke, Valve Oil And Steam	Johnny Horton
07	Words	Johnny Horton
08	Shadows On The Old Bayou	Johnny Horton
09	On The Banks Of The Beautiful Nile	Johnny Horton
10	In My Home In Shelby County	Johnny Horton
11	Go And Wash Those Dirty Feet	Johnny Horton
107	Talk, Gobbler, Talk	Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton There's no telling how far Johnny Horton would have gone or how he'd be... more

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"Johnny Horton"

Johnny Horton

There's no telling how far Johnny Horton would have gone or how he'd be thought about today had he not died in the small hours of November 5, 1960. That fatal car wreck ensured he'd be remembered as so many whose lives are cut short in their prime... young, vital and brimming with talent. In ten years he'd gone from talent show contestant to country and pop singing star, recording a wide range of material that rode the crests of a rapidly changing music scene. From the strong Western influence of the early Abbott sides recorded in 1950 and 1951 in Los Angeles to post-Hank Williams Nashville at Mercury through the mid-1950s and finally with Columbia Records beginning in 1956... Johnny Horton recorded everything from barroom weepers and straight country to rockabilly and bona fide pop hits.

Horton covered that much musical geography because he could, he was a damn good singer... a GREAT singer. His voice was big, infectious and friendly, bursting with charisma and personality. While he is much admired for the rocking up-tempo tunes and the mega hit Battle Of New Orleans, Johnny Horton is less remembered as the great ballad singer he was. Record companies leaned toward tempo for the A-side of singles to attract air play. Very often the flip side of the record was where the heart felt ballad was hiding or maybe a few would turn up tucked into a long playing album. It's these overlooked treasures that make up this set and, with the exception of When It's Springtime In Alaska, none were released as A-sides while Meant So Little To You from 1954 remained unissued for 37 years.

I was in London working on a recording project when I received a note from Richard Weize asking if I would assemble this CD of Johnny Horton ballads. I was immediately taken back to 1956 when as a youngster I first became aware of a song on the radio called I'm A One Woman Man. I was pulled into that record, the sound, the drive, the click-clock of Bill Black's string bass. Mostly though, I was drawn to the fellows voice who was singing it. From that day forward I always sought out Johnny Horton's records and later when my contemporaries scrambled to be the first to have the latest Beatles or Rolling Stones release, I delighted in the great and grand luck of finding a Horton single on Mercury in a dime store close-out bin for nine cents! Those were touchstone records for me then as they are now.

In so many ways his music and those recordings have informed my life as a professional musician having gone from country to styles far a-field and occasionally back again.

In compiling this collection I have chosen ballads that span Horton's entire career and those that I like as songs. He sang so well that he could sell nearly anything... well almost. A few songs just don't hold up for me and I've omitted those. I'm sorry if they happen to be your favourites, but it's simply one reporter's opinion. Thought has been put into the sequencing of this set... how it runs musically and the mix of styles through the years. Included are a few tunes that might have questionable pedigrees as ballads. Today a ballad is generally accepted to be any slow piece of music, but I've always felt a ballad to be a song that tells a story regardless of tempo. Also, ballads of the 1950s were often recorded at a brisker tempo than their modern equivalents. With that in mind, I have taken some liberty.

Johnny Horton was at the top of his game with North To Alaska playing on every pop and country radio station that autumn of 1960 when he died. I speculate he would have had a long and productive career ahead of him, all the while adapting as he did so well to musical trends that lay ahead. Some of his later recordings already foreshadowed the coming of strings and voices. He negotiated that countrypolitan approach beautifully and would have been very much at home with 60's style Nashville and beyond with it's increasing emphasis on ballads. For Johnny Horton there would have been many more ballads.

Richard Bennett
Nashville, Tennessee

from the booklet BCD16384 - Johnny Horton The Ballads Of Johnny Horton
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/horton-johnny-the-ballads-of-johnny-horton.html
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